Dina Fakoussa joined the Robert Bosch Foundation in January 2023 as Senior Project Manager Global Issues. She is part of the unit international cooperation, developing strategies and identifying partnerships related to changing dynamics in multilateralism and international cooperation against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism and geopolitics. In parallel she works as an independent analyst and consultant on the MENA region. Her professional career encompasses senior positions at German think tanks and political foundations targeting the MENA region. She served among others for nine years as Head of the MENA Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and as Program Manager at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Lebanon.
Her areas of expertise and interest which she also addressed in publications are geo-politics, middle powers, the state of democracy and democracy promotion as well as German and EU policies vis à vis the MENA region. Dina is German-Egyptian and lived for more than 25 years in the MENA region, primarily in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan.